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I concede that I fell for this, so this is a useful corrective.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Where has the Labour & Tory vote gone here? Labour 2024: Still Lab 47% Don’t know 14% Lib Dem 10% Reform 9% Greens 9% Will not vote 5% Con 3% SNP 1% Con 2024: Con 54% Reform 26% (!) DK 11% LD 3% Lab 2% Green 1% WNV 1% Put simply, this is how Farage becomes Prime Minister. But a long way to go.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Pretty stark this “Breakaway from Treasury orthodoxy otherwise we will never get the investment we desperately need."

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

This may sound grim, but it is a colossal underestimate of the impact of 4C heating Forget 40% poorer - this will leave billions dead and society and economy will have collapsed long before the 4C mark is reached www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 45 days ago • 22 comments

EXC Downing Street is rethinking its controversial winter fuel payment cut amid growing anxiety at the top of government that the policy could wreak serious electoral damage. Tonight’s story packed full of new lines… @pippacrerar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 46 comments

I bet it’d be a bestseller.

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

One of the things I learned writing a book about global trade is that thing you got delivered next day started its journey months ago in China or SE Asia. A few months from now you will see an explosion of stories about empty shelves. It’s going to blow people’s minds.

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

WWII Mosquito pilot Colin Bell shares his memories of VE Day with Sky's Jonathan Samuels He flew a Mosquito bomber and carried out 50 bombing raids over Germany news.sky.com/story/wwii-m...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

EXCLUSIVE Naval News has first image of Ukraine’s Sidewinder-armed Magura V7 surface drone (USV) which shot down two Russian Su-30 FLANKER jets www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

The official White House account retweeted it. Remarkable.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

aaaaaahhhhhhh stop stop STOP THIS, STOP IT

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The promise was change. Not enough has changed. There is no compelling plan for change. Whichever way you slice it, this is a big problem.

submitted 14 days ago • 63 comments

NEW: Russia is once again preparing to escalate the forced removal and deportation of Ukrainian children during the upcoming summer months. (1/3) Russian Occupation Update, April 28, 2025: isw.pub/OccupationUp...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

This will be done by first past the post. What a joke, and how staggeringly useless it is as a system.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

An absolutely wild story this. The media experts who don't... or may not... exist. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

Jimmy Carter put his family peanut farm in a blind trust for the duration of his Presidency to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

😡Absolutely horrifying. The russians have hit a high-rise building in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine with an aerial bomb.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Bannon the latest in the “Britain doesn’t manufacture anything” brigade. It’s a lazy trope you hear repeated in the media a lot. In fact the UK remains the 8th or 9th biggest manufacturer in the world. 10% of our GDP with some of the most advanced manufacturing anywhere.

submitted 29 days ago • 81 comments

It is impossible to keep up.

submitted 29 days ago • 46 comments

Russia has had 120,000 casualties in this war so far. Astonishing.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Sadly yes

submitted 31 days ago • 793 comments

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

submitted 31 days ago • 36 comments

This is it people. This is the moment of the camps.

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 31 days ago • 1985 comments

🕯️ 32 ki##ed, including 2 children. 99 injured, including 11 children.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Fantastic use of polling

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Ban social media for under-16s - my essay for @thetimes.com as part of the Crime and Justice Commission www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 34 days ago • 2330 comments

Trumps tariffs in a nutshell.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 34 days ago • 248 comments

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Post shared by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning after new U.S. tariffs on China.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Narrator: History would prove he had that right.

submitted 35 days ago • 107 comments

huh, this whole thread huh

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Magnificent portraits of Donald Trump www.michaelmoore.com/p/an-entire-...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.

submitted 41 days ago • 269 comments

Getting some Data vibes with this.

submitted 41 days ago • 143 comments

JPMorgan now forecasting a 60% chance of US recession this year.

submitted 41 days ago • 65 comments

This is what empires look like when they fall inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

submitted 43 days ago • 106 comments

Trump has now extorted $350 million in pro bono work for right-wing causes from Big Law firms. That's enough to fund three-and-a-half Heritage Foundations.

submitted 43 days ago • 37 comments

Oh just Texas Congressman Keith Self directly quoting Joseph Goebbels during a congressional hearing….what planet are we on smh

submitted 43 days ago • 619 comments

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

submitted 44 days ago • 93 comments

Trump is raising taxes like no President has ever before.

submitted 45 days ago • 100 comments

Meanwhile... The Liberal Democrats kick off their local election campaign. This went on for 10 minutes and was carried live on Sky News. I love British politics and am ashamed of it, in precisely equal measure. ~AA

submitted 46 days ago • 39 comments

“President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term.” Of course. We all knew it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Everything else he’s done so far in this term has been copy-paste from the Ye Olde Fascist Takeover Manual, so this will probably barely register in the media.

submitted 46 days ago • 35 comments

A long rebalancing of investor portfolios is likely to be under way that could be painful for America on.ft.com/4c7DnTW

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 48 days ago • 1247 comments